Life during the course of Gasshuku Menkyo

Although students may live in many different areas of Japan, we require that you arrive at the driving school before noon of the admission date. People who live far away can take the shinkansen.

After your application is complete, a “school entrance guidebook” will be sent to your home. There will be names of major train stations in the area where you live written in the guidebook. You can use this to see which stations to board and get down as they are all listed in details.

After you get down at Yamagata Station, our bus will come and pick you up.

Please buy tickets for shinkansen, trains or hi-speed buses yourselves. We recommend that you buy tickets a few days in advance.

You can also use your student discount to buy tickets at a lower price. To apply for this, please visit your school’s office.

Round-trip transportation fee will be paid when you graduate. Therefore, please pay for transportation to Yamagata Prefecture. No receipt is necessary.

If you are late, you may not be able to enter the school on that day. Also, the graduation date may be delayed significantly. Please be sure not to be late for anything.

If you are late, please call the school immediately.

Our bus will come to pick you up to the driving schools every morning. We will also take you back to where you stay after classes. It usually takes around 10 minutes to drive between where you stay and the driving school.

Please be careful not to be late for departure time.

Please do not forget any of the items below. You should prepare all of them right after your application. We will ask you to come back home if you fail to bring these items.

• Certificate of residence with individual records
  →This document is under the name of the student and must include hometown (nationality), and has to be valid within 3 months since the date of issue. It is forbidden to use documents under the name of your family members.
• Your identification
  →Passport for example
• Certificate of Alien Registration or Residence Card
• Seal
  →Shachihata and rubber stamp are not accepted
• Glasses, contact lenses
  →For people with below-standard vision
• Temporary license written test’s fee of 2,850 yen
  →An additional 1,700 yen is required for retaking the test
• Daily necessities, clothes to change, writing instruments, comfortable shoes

Besides what have been listed above, feel free to bring dictionaries, smartphone chargers or such things if you think it is necessary. There are convenience stores in our area so you can buy these in case you forgot to bring them with you.

If you get sick, we can take you to the hospital. Please immediately inform the school’s office or contact the manager of your hotel/inn if you feel unhealthy.

The average temperature is 25℃ in August and 2.6℃ in December. Meanwhile, these numbers for Tokyo are 27℃ and 8℃ respectively, so summer in Yamagata is cooler and winter is colder compared with Tokyo.

If you don’t like cold weather, please prepare warm clothes.

There is also snow in the winter. However, snow will be removed from the roads so there’s no need to worry about transportation.